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Fawkes, Walter Ramsden, 1769-1825
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1769-1825
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FAWKES, WALTER RAMSDEN, eldest son of Walter Ramsden Beaumont Fawkes (qv); b. 2 Mar 1769; adm. 5 Feb 1781; left Whitsun 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, [add date admission or matriculation]1786; assumed surname of Fawkes in lieu of Hawksworth 2 Dec 1792, on succeeding to father’s estates; a keen agriculturist and successful breeder of cattle; an active member of the advanced section of the Whig party and prominent in the anti-slave trade movement; MP Yorkshire 1806-7; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1823; early patron and intimate friend of the painter J. M. W. Turner; part of his famous collection of works by Turner was sold at Christie’s 27 Jun 1890; author, The Chronology of the History of Modern Europe, 1810, and other works; m. 1st, 28 Aug 1794 Maria, dau. of Robert Grimston, Neswick, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 4 Jan 1816 Maria Sophia, widow of Hon. and Rev. Pierce Butler, and dau. of John Vernon, Clontarf Castle, co. Dublin; d. 24 Oct 1825. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.